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Elizabeth G. Thomas gave us considerable information
with regard to the national flowers and
shrubs selected by different countries as their
emblems which was new to most of us apparently.

Anna F. Gilpin sent her love to the
Association by telephone and said she had
hoped to be with us but was prevented by the storm.

Sarah T. Miller told us of the Illinois Yearly
Meeting which she had recently attended and
a young peoples' meeting where a little
child had recited an amusing poem by
James Whitcomb Riley without shocking anybody.

Mrs. Jackson gave admirable
definitions of the word " Home" and we
regret that only two were caught on the fly
"Where we grumble most and are treated
best". "A novel of strife shut out, a world
of love shut in". Mary Jackson's excellent
communications were brief and fitting - "Be a
light in the window if you cannot be a star
in the sky", and Father Graham's advice -
An insult is like mud, it will brush off
much better when it is dry". Ellen H. Thomas recited
by request, Thomas K. Beecher's darkey serman "The
Ship of Faith" and then a cute piece "The Boot Black" was
highly appreciated. The secretary read an article describing
a trip to the Mammoth Cave by her husband
and self a few weeks since when they were on their way
home from the Nahville Exposition. Adjourned to Wrenwood.

Mary Bentley Thomas sec.